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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 69, 15 December 1919, Page 13

These observo/tions are unavoidably somewhat hurriedly put together but | I hope they may be of sumo interest and some service to you. Believe me, Yours faithfully, BERTRAM CAItR, Mayor. FROM THE LATE MAYOR OF CAKLIbLE 1 (Now Alderman Oeorgo White, J.P.), (No. 3.) D. M. Findlay, Esq., President, Moderate League, Wellington, N.Z. Dear Sir,—ln reply to your inquiry, I am glad to inform you, that tho experiment of Liquor Control, as carried out in the Carlisle Area during tne last throo years, ljas undoubtedly been an unqualified success. As an ex-Mayor and Alderman of many years standing, also Justice of the Peace, since 1896, 1 too watched the development and effect ot the experiment with great satisfaction and approval, from both the moral and business point of view' and feel sure tho last" thing the public desire is to revert to file old state of tilings, Yours,faithfully, GEO. WHITE, J.P. FROM JOHN FITZSIMMONS, ESQ. (Member of Carlisle City' of Health, Education, Special Housing, and Development Committees.) (No. i.) RE LIQUOR CONTROL. Carlisle, September 4,1919D. M. Findlay, Esq., '■ ; President, Moderate League, Wellington. . , Dear Sir,-In reply to your inquiry to give my opinion on the very important question of State Purchase and Control of the Liquor Traffic, I can only say that tho- control of the Liquor traffic, under proper conditions is a great benefit to tho nation as a whole, as it tends to the. betterment of the people. I aIU > .. ,1 Yours respectfully JOHN I'Tl'Zbi MMONfa, Member of Carlisle City Council, and of tho Health, Education, Special Housing, and Development Committees. FROM MRS. ELIZABETH R. JOHNSTON (Controller of Food Department, under the Central .Control Board, Carlisle). (No. 5.) 1 Hulcaster Crescent, Stauwix, Carlisle, September 5, 1919. President, Moderate League, Wellington, N.Z. . , Dear Sir,-In answer to your inquiry as to my opinion 011 the working of the system of State Control of tho Liquor Traffic in' this district, I have been associated witjli the scheme sinco its. inception isl July,J)lb, and if is my opinion that State Control offers the true solution of the drink problem in England. Under the echoine licensees' have no pecuniary interest in tho sale of their salaries aro tho 6amc whether they sell much or little. The number of licensed houses has been 1 educed by 40 per Proper provision lias been made for the supply of foixl under 'the same root as where the liquor is sold, and tho rcault is that drunkenness has !i"nn reduced to a minimum. . , ~ . I have no hesitation in saying that the experiment has proved it-'.elf a great, practical step in the cause of and I feel that experience ivill t bnrig about further improvements which will meet tho requirements of the community from every standpoint. I ehotild certainly vote for Slate Control of Liquor in preference to the old system or total Prohibition, Yours faithfully, ELIZABETH H. JOHNSTON. (Note.)— This lady is Controller of the Food Department under the Central Control Hoard, and is the wife of a leading provision merchant. She is an enthusiastic temperance worker.